Wedding card box

A co-worker asked me to make a card box for his daughter’s wedding, and wanted it to look like a birdfeeder that we make in our Wood 1 class. So this is what I came up with, built out of Baltic birch plywood. I just doubled all of the dimensions, so it’s roughly double the size of the original.

The top is slightly different from the original model, and includes a removable cap (attached with 2 screws) for the cards to be taken out after the wedding. The hardest part was the acute angled cut on the roof sides, which required a 60° angle. In order to achieve that, I tilted my blade to 30° and pushed the workpiece through vertically instead of laying flat on the table, which is always nerve-racking.

I engraved the one end with the bride & grooms first initials and wedding date to add a personalized touch. Not much in the way of fine Woodworking, but he’s happy with it, which is always good.

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Beautiful bird house box. I like that card box you made have a theme. Myself made similar project for my brother in law’s weding (Croatian traditional chest as card box). ...and don’t bother, it’s all woodworking in my eyes.